Refinishing Oak Floors Darker
How to refinish solid oak flooring.
Refinishing oak floors darker. How to refinish light oak to dark. Do i have to sand down to bare wood to get rid of them. The wood on my floors is red oak.
If the scratches don t go all the way through to the wood you can scuff sand your floors with a buffer and apply a fresh coat or two of finish. This involves scuffing up the finish with a floor buffer and applying a refresher coat. My oak floors are covered in scratches.
We are installing the floors and staining this week. Would have way preferred white oak. Hi there i live in estes park colorado and i m trying to convince the floor guy that i want a darker finish on my 80 year old red oak floors.
Susan bankhead meridian idaho. As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look. One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that.
He loves it so much. As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color. He should marry it.
I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right. Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species. Two key questions for many home improvement buffs planning an oak refinishing project are whether to darken the wood s coloring and if so how to do it.